How to create, view, update, and cancel calendar events using Siri

The complete guide to managing your Calendar events and appointments on your iPhone or iPad with Siri

Since Siri is meant to be your personal assistant, it only makes sense to have it schedule and manage your meetings and events on your iPhone or iPad. Asking Siri to create a calendar event only takes a few seconds and is much faster than creating them manually and entering all the data yourself. Whether you need Siri to schedule a meeting, tell you what's on the agenda for the day, or move an existing meeting to another time to make room for a conference call or a power nap, Siri will help make sure your schedule is set.

How to create a calendar event with Siri

If you're on the go or just want an easier way to add events to your Calendar app, Siri will happily get the job done for you. Creating an event is super simple and only takes a few seconds.

Press and hold the Home button on your iPhone or iPad to launch Siri.

Say something like "Schedule a meeting/appointment/call with Rene at 3pm tomorrow". Obviously you'll be replacing names and times with your own information.

Siri will confirm what she heard and ask you to confirm. Tap Yes to confirm your calendar entry.

If there's any ambiguity about what you said, or Siri is uncertain, it will ask you to clarify. For example, if you ask to set up an appointment "tomorrow", and it's near midnight, Siri will ask you to specify the date to make sure the appointment is set up properly.

If you made a mistake or simply want to revise something immediately, instead of confirming, you can also tell Siri to "change the time", "change the title (of the appointment/event)", or simply "cancel" it entirely.

How to update a calendar event with Siri

There may be times where you'll need to make changes to existing meetings, events, or appointments. Siri can do that for you too.

Reader comments

How to create, view, update, and cancel calendar events using Siri

has anyone figured out how to make FB birthdays invisible to siri? i allow FB to access my contacts but not my calendar. while that keeps FB birthdays from showing up in ical, it does not, interestingly enough, remove FB birthdays from notification center. because of that, when i use siri to set a meeting, i'm told that i already have 4 conflicting meetings at that time (which are invariably FB birthdays). is there a way to get rid of this without turning off contacts in the FB setting? is there a setting buried somewhere that i'm missing?

I have my ical set up so that different things have their own category and color based on importance. Is there a way to get siri to set an event to a specified calendar? I've tried using the calendar's name, but Siri sets that as the title of the event instead.

Siri considers all-day events to be 'appointments'. I do not. So when I ask for an appointment to be scheduled on a day with all-day events Siri says there is a clash. can Siri be cojnfigured not to do this?